About

Our Mission

We engage students, teachers, and schools across the district in meaningful sustainability initiatives. Our goal is to ensure that every student in DCSD has the opportunity to experience environmental education as an integral part of their learning journey.

What is Sustainability?

The practice of meeting society’s environmental, economic, and social needs today in a way that does not compromise the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

The "Big Ideas"

Community. A group of living and non-living things sharing a common purpose or space.

Systems. Parts are connected through larger patterns.

Diversity. All systems and places function because of variety.

Interdependence. All living things are connected. Every organism, system, and place depends on others.

Cycles. Every organism and every system goes through different stages.

Change Over Time. All organisms, places, and systems are constantly in a state of change.

Limits. Every system has a carrying capacity.

Fairness/Equity. Resources are shared to meet the needs of living things across places and generations.

Place. Natural and human communities together make up one's place.

Ability to Make a Difference. Everyone can change or impact a system, community, and themselves.

Long-Term Effects. Actions have effects beyond immediate reactions.

Equilibrium. A state of balance.